Trump says Iran is pleading the US to stop its naval blockade
Trump has asked a crowd at General Motors in Michigan: “How good is our navy with a blockade?”
Referring to the US naval blockade on Iran, he said that: “Not one boat gets in”.
He added that Iran is saying: “Please, please, no blockade”.
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Netanyahu arrives in Washington, DC, for Trump talks
The Israeli prime minister has touched down on US soil, according to media reports in Israel.
Iran’s health minister says 60 killed, 670 injured in recent US attacks
Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi said that 60 Iranian citizens were killed and about 670 injured in attacks by the United States in the south of the country, over a period of between 10 and 12 days, according to Iranian news agency reports.
The US is ‘winning big time’ with Iran, Trump says
More from Trump’s speech in Michigan:
The president says he is making the “largest ever investment in the United States armed forces”, adding that the US has the strongest military in the world and that he is using it now.
“We’re winning big time with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said, adding, “We’re ensuring that they’re never having a nuclear weapon.”
“”If you understood the power of the nuclear weapons, you’d understand exactly what I was saying.”
Trump says Iran has been “the bully of the Middle East” for 47 to 50 years.
He said that US President Barack Obama thought it was possible to bribe Iran, but that “you can’t bribe them, you gotta beat them, and we’re beating the hell out of them”.
“We’ll see how it turns out,” he added. “Right now there are very friendly negotiations going on.”